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Volume 13, Issue 4, 2004
Selection of Sewing Threads for Preform Manufacturing

A. Ogale, C. Weimer and P. Mitschang

Institut fur Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Erwin-Schrodinger-Str. 58,67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

(Received 8/03; accepted 12/03)

Abstract

Applying sewing technologies for manufacturing preforms, which later used for Liquid Composite Moulding processes (LCM), requires an adoption of different sewing resources. As the number of applications of stitched preforms are growing [1 ,2 ], the issue of improving thread quality and its compatibility with the Fibre Reinforced Plastic (FRP) is getting into the interest of both industry and science. Within this study the relationship between the thread design and the FRP quality with respect to the LCM technique was evaluated.

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